The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-22
THE REV. ID. q. MARQUIS,
LATE MODER ATOR OF THE PRES.
BYTERIAN CHURCH,
Has Something 10 Say About the w.
q. Il. U. ana Wine That IN
Very Refreshing.

MlNNEAP0LIS, MIMI, May d.
Rev. David 9. Marquis, ID. d., of
Chicago, who was the moderator of
the General Assembly OF the Presby-
terian Church at its session in Min
neapolis last year, is in the city.
Since the meeting OF the assembly
here one OF the events of the session
has been the subject OF national COM
ment, and has stirred up the Presby-
terrain Church from one end OF the
United States to the other. The
trouble arose over some memorials
which the st. Louis w. G. 4. u. sent
to the Assembly. They reached the
clerk of the Assembly, but never
reached the Assembly. 1t was charged
that the memorials had been sup
pressed, and a circular was got out
by the 81. Louis ladies and sent to
every Presbyterian church in
the country, making that allie
cation. A bitter discussion was ex-
cited all over the country This
trouble is known as the Marquis
Crosby imbroglio, DR.. Crosby coming
in for censure, too. On this matter
DR.. Marquis said this morning: 81
know nothing of the DOCUMENTS sent
here by the ladies of st. Louis. They
purported to have been issued by the
w. Q. 7. U. on the alleged drinking
OF wine at the alumni banquet OF
Princeton college. They made mis-
take in surprising the college alumni
to be under the control OF the Gene
raj Assembly, when the Assembly
has no more to do with the alumni
of Princeton than the alumni OF Ok
ford university in England. The
Assembly would have done nothing
with the memorial il it had been re-
ceived, for it has no power to inves-
tigate the college and much less the
alumni. The only thing the Assem-
bly, could have done would have been
to pass a resolution condemning the
drinking Of wine by Presbytcrians.
The allegations in the pamphlet is
sued charging the suppression of the
mail matter are tissue OF false
hoods, in so far as the state
ments there made are concerned.
As emanating from an individual |
should not notice them, but they
were sent through the mail with Of
fetal documents of the Assembly
and thus had the appearance OF Pres
byterian sanction. The st. Louis
Presbytery considered the matter
fully, and pronounced the statements
of the circular false. The insinua-
tion that the temperance meeting,
which was to have been held (but
owing to the pressure Of business
was omitted) was manipulated out of
existence is an insult, and it is a
SANDER pure and simple that the
Temperance Committee was made up
purposely Of men who would vote
for its adjustment. The only in-
stance wherein the moderator was
approached uas by the so called tenn
perance men, whom | call the intern
perate men, who placed in my hands
full committee on temperance. OF
course the moderator did not
appoint that committee, or any
committee on solicitation. He
would not allow the represen-
tatives Of cause to name the
committee who would represent the
church as widely as possible without
any knowledge of the views enter
tanned by them on that subject. The
secret of this whole affair is that the
moderator unoonsciously smashed a
slate and was consequently accused
r 4 4
Of Of having s?I a slate n Of his own. which
Presbyterian ministers believe in
wine drinkingp | think ali ministers
who hold firmly to the Scriptures
agree that wine drinking is not sin,
but that the ground of total absti-
good ground for total abstinence, but
expedienay and not in the doctrine
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